#brownies we live in japan

[sleepy-cephalopod-studies]

Accidentally had a bunch of parents and kids at my local culture festival concerned for me a few weeks ago lol

So my junior high held their culture festival and I got to order some food for the two days I was there. You write what you want and send the money in an envelope to the vice principal, and I got tickets for my menu items. I saw on the menu that they had コーンパン (literally corn bread), and my Southern US self got very hyped because I didn't even know they HAD cornbread in Japan! But they seem to have corn dishes in a lot of cuisine, so I thought it made sense. So I order corn bread.

I get my bento bag and am expecting the bread of my childhood, cornbread. Warm, fluffy, like a brownie but made of cornmeal in all its redneck and indigenous-origins glory.

My friends and fellow hoes, I did not receive cornbread. I received...Japanese cornbread.

Now on its face, I like the three components of this food. I like corn. Of course I do, I'm American, we put corn in everything. I like mayo. I love bread. But when you are a Texan, you're already missing some cultural aspects of your home like its cuisine, and you are expecting CORNBREAD, and you get this?

I spent a solid thirty seconds just blinking at this corn bun and I looked so dejected that multiple students near me asked if I was okay. I live in a first-person perspective like everyone else but I imagine my face was similar to this:

[brown-little-robin]

getting to know you tag! stealing this from @zelzahdarkcloak ;3

relationship status: surrounded and uplifted by lots of great friends, not called to romance at this time, currently searching for church community

fave color: EDIT WAUGH. warm browns, pale blues, rich dark reddish-purple, sunlight-through-leaves green, dark grey, white :}

fave food: shrimp Fettucine Alfredo; red velvet cake; brownies, as dense as possible, preferably not overly sweet; hot chocolate; buttery homemade bread, challah, and homemade muffins <333

song stuck in my head: the Virginia Reel!

last thing I googled: where to play Palia. sadly, I do not have a Switch, so Palia is not in my imminent future for the time being

time: 8:07 Central Time Zone!

dream trip: Art-and-food tour of China and/or Japan with a really good guide and translator!! I adore Asian art and architecture. Also I'd really like time for hiking the breathtaking mountainous landscapes... 😍 and ideally my dad would be with me, because he would really like the art exploration and he'd be a perfect companion for that. Daddy-daughter art/food/hiking tour of China and Japan ahhhhhh 😍

last thing you read: Exit Strategy, the fourth novella of the Murderbot Diaries series! I'm also rereading The Goblin Emperor and Flash Facts of Bart Allen right now!

last book you enjoyed: Exit Strategy!!!!! 😍

fave thing to cook or bake: Muffins :3

fave craft: Ceramics, of course! But also sewing (plushie mice) and I do doodle whenever my hand has a pen near a piece of paper.

most niche dislike: WHEN WRITERS CALL THADDEUS THAWNE THE SECOND "TAD" OR "TADD". I know he's called that in the later comics but that's all wrong!!!! My boy's name was shortened to Thad by Max Mercury, the first person who ever loved him!!!! and he accepted that nickname!!! Respect for clones and the names they are given by those who love them PLEASE!!! ok I'm normal again

opinion on circuses: I got obsessed with clowns in the summer of 2023, including circus clowns, so I perk up at the word "circuses" now, haha. But honestly I don't care for them? The circus clown arts are impressive and crucial to the history of clowns, but honestly, circus clowning is my least favorite form of clowning. I would go to a circus if it was nearby and enjoy it (I do love watching humans be impressive), but the crowds would be tiring and it would probably not as exciting to me as, say, live theatre. and let's not even get into the ethical questions of circuses historically versus in the present day, okay, we don't need to go there right now

do I have a sense of direction: not instinctively; at birth I traded my sense of direction for synesthesia. I can train myself to have a mental map of specific regions but it takes encoding the map in my memory and logic-ing out the direction I'm facing every time I want to know, which is maybe not the same as "having a sense of direction".

Thanks! Tagging whoever feels like doing it!

[jonghyuns-husband]

(CW // Dec 18th, suicide, victims of harassment, violence, mental health talk)

Since I want to spread this hashtag more, I would like to talk about the Shawols that I lost over the years and bring their voices up.

Clem was a friend I met on Wattpad back in 2015 when I was 11 and she was 14. She was one of the closest and the first online friend I’ve ever had. She loved to make SHINee stories for fun and she also helped me to write better. She was an amazing writer who took great passion for her work as well as her being a big advocate for the LGBTQ+ community according to her sister who came out as lesbian a year before we met.

Unfortunately, Clem was bullied at her college and her workplace, including on her online accounts. This would occur about 1-2 month after the death has been announced. On the 15th of December 2018, 3 days after Jonghyun’s first anniversary, she couldn’t take it anymore and took her own life. She was 17.

Sam was a girl in the secondary school who was 2 years older than me. I remembered talking to her once and that was it. She also really loved Jonghyun and Onew and was a BIG fan of the group.

One day, she stopped coming to class. There was a rumour going around saying that Sam took her own life after being hate bombed for posting about Jonghyun positively to cope with the pain. The last time she was in class, a guy mentioned his passing without warning which triggered the girl to stand up and leave. Ever since then, she was never seen again. The guy thought that it was his fault, but it turned out that she was going through a lot recently and couldn’t take it anymore. If it was true, then she died on the 9th of January 2018 aged 16 years old.

Ayami was a close friend of mine since Year 1. Interesting fact, she was actually born in Japan and then came to the UK when she was only 4. That summer, she enrolled in my school where we met on the first day. She didn’t speak much English, but luckily I knew a bit of Japanese so we were able to have a connection together. She was a sweet girl that would look out of anyone who looked like that needed help. She even loved to cook and wanted to start her own sweet shop one day where she would make sweet treats such as cakes, cupcakes, brownies, cookies, etc. Fun fact, my blog @yutassweetshop is actually based on her childhood dream and yes NCT bias was also Yuta! It’s a sweet (no pun intended) tribute to the one I called noona, and yes I’ll never stop calling her that until the day I die. Never mind, she’ll still be my noona anyways.

Although yes she had been harassed around his passing when we went to school together, there were other stuff in her life that really pulled the trigger on her head. I could make a separate post talking about Ayami and what she had went through so you would know, but to keep it simple, her father did some horrible things to her as a kid that when she found out, she took her own life out of fear. She was 14.

The reason why I mentioned her was the fact that Jonghyun’s passing was one of the chain of events she had to go through in her life, and you never truly know what someone has gone through already. Even though she didn’t die over it, that still doesn’t make it ok regardless. It’s still an awful thing to do to someone who is grieving by acting like they are complete strangers and treating them like they had never once seen the man before.

Those 3 girls didn’t took their lives because they were obsessive fans, they died because they were HARASSED to suicide. I know a friend’s friend who was also a blinger that took her own life and her family thought it was because she was sad over the passing of Jonghyun. That wasn’t what happened. She was beaten up at school and was told to kill herself ever since she came back from the Christmas holidays. She ended up doing so in her room and she was so close to celebrating her 16th birthday. It was the same as Jonghyun’s. She took her own life 2 days before at age 15.

There were some people in my cousins’ lives that killed themselves too, but I don’t know them very much, but all of them will be missed. Any Shawols that I’ve missed, please leave their names below and tell me one thing you loved about them. You can even talk about their favourite song or albums.

This tormenting K-Pop fans thing needs to stop. I don’t care if you think teenage girls screaming about their BTS biases are cringe, this needs to end. It’s not funny anymore and it’s claiming lives. I could of lost my friend that I met last year just because of the dumb messages of them saying that he was disrespecting a “deadman.” It just seems so tone deaf that really, they’re actually doing the disrespecting and not him.

This is already a difficult month for all of us and I just beg, PLEASE DO NOT HARASS ANY SHAWOLS. Not just in this month where it’s his anniversary, but WHOLE FUCKING YEAR. Please treat us like human beings and stop making us change for someone who barely even knows about the guy until the news broke and now you want to be the fucking hero when you’re not.

Why don’t you do all of us a favour and just fuck off. I’m sure most of us would want that now. This is why some Shawols like me haven’t yet stopped grieving because of how badly people treated us over the years. It has been 5 years, instead of telling us to “let him rest in peace”, how about you let us “grief in peace.”

It’s like what they say, “don’t give his family condolences if you aren’t going to respect his fans.”

Never mind, I did.

Rest in peace to Clem, Sam, Ayami and everyone else who took their lives due to these kinds of people either in real life or online. Rest in peace to the main guy himself, Kim Jonghyun. Thank you so much for taking care of those lost souls for us. Trust me, this was never your fault. Don’t ever blame yourself for any of this. Disgusting pricks like them (the people who harasses Shawols) has always existed since the beginning of time.

Please don’t cry because of the Shawols that went your route but be happy since you made their dreams come true. 

[resurrection-of-soul]

Flashback | BIOHAZARD 11

Writer: Akira (日日日)

Characters: Koga, Adonis, Rei, Kaoru

Kaoru: (Well, you guys were just doing normal idol stuff, y'know? Compared to those wannabe gangsters, you seemed totally harmless.)

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Koga: (The hell's he sayin'…?) (Since when was Adonis one a' those "vampire" guys? And why the boss, at that?!)

Adonis: (I-I have no answers for you. I don't remember being one of them either.) (But, I do recall this incident.) (I'm sure you would never forget it either, Oogami. The details may differ, but this is our history.) (No. What I mean to say is, this is our origin story.)

Koga: (Yeah... 'S not like I forgot or anything.) (This stuff really did happen. But there wasn't any a' this weird shit about "vampires" or whatever.) (It's true that a buncha folks callin' themselves Sakuma-senpai's successors went on a rampage in the downtown area, but he'd gone overseas at the time n' there was no way to get in touch…) (If Sakuma-senpai had actually come down to deliver judgement like this, those believers a' his might've a~ctually gotten the fear of God put in 'em n' calmed down.) (But cause he wasn't here, those of us who were had to try n' figure somethin' out on our own.)

Rei: (Aye, indeed, 'tis quite strange. I should not be in Japan at this juncture.) (I have no recollection of sneaking back, either… The fact that "I" am here to witness this incident directly contradicts mine own memories.)

Kaoru: (Right? I totally wasn't on the front lines like this either. I mean, forget about being the point of contact, I wasn't even, like, involved until pretty late in the game.)

Adonis: (It was the same for me. If I recall correctly, Hasumi-senpai was the one who went and started taking action on his own after he noticed that some unscrupulous people were causing havoc downtown.)

Koga: (Haah. He was the vice prez n' all, so he went around punishin' the local delinquents to score brownie points.) (Thanks to that, the adults' opinions of the student council went way up drastically after this incident.) (The student council's authority shot up and the scope of its activities increased, until that shitty four-eyes became so busy that he completely cut ties with us.) (But… Before things got to that point, he was the one who asked me n' Adonis to work with him as part of DEADMANZ.) (He said that we, DEADMANZ, were Sakuma-senpai's real successors. So we went to silence those assholes who were claimin' to be his sucessors without permission.) (We put on a buncha flashy performances at this underground live house, got more n' more famous, n' eventually the local businesses started supportin' us too.)

Kaoru: (Well, you guys were just doing normal idol stuff, y'know? Compared to those wannabe gangsters, you seemed totally harmless.) (For us locals, it was like, way more convenient to have DEADMANZ become Rei-kun's successors.) (But because we had such a nice working relationship, people got it into their heads that I was a member of DEADMANZ too. I was, like, so fed up with it!) (And then, as if it was a given, Hasumi-kun just went and put my name on the documents, making me a member for real without even asking first!)

Kaoru: (Did he think that he could like, get me to stop slacking off that way?)

Rei: (In the interest of defending Hasumi-kun's honor, I must confess: 'twas I who ordered thy inclusion.) (In fact, 'twas the condition which I imposed in exchange for fulfilling his request that I return to the country and deliver judgement upon those who were wreaking havoc.) (Thus did I declare, "My only successors, my only allies, are the members of DEADMANZ." With the word of God¹ against them, those troublemakers were finally silenced.)

Kaoru: (Well, to your devotees, your word really can be considered equivalent to a god's. If the real deal comes to express his anger himself, there's no way anyone can argue against him.)

Koga: (Yeah, exactly. So they all got depressed after that n' vanished.)

Rei: (Indeed. Thus did the disturbances come to an end, and everyone lived happily ever after ♪)

Koga: (It took a pretty long time to get to that point, though. Or at least, I remember havin' to deal with it for a long while. You didn't really come home all that often back then, Sakuma-senpai.)

Rei: ('Twas simply because my past self harbored an indiscriminate hatred for all things. Speaking frankly, I was a pain in the ass.) (But thanks to those hectic days, in the end, the prototype of what would become the UNDEAD we know today was established. One can thus say those efforts were not in vain, no?) (Though Hasumi-kun departed midway, the others who assembled during those tumultuous events would later become the main members of UNDEAD.) (Then, ere I knew it, Koga had changed the name of the unit to UNDEAD—) (And so, these dead men were reborn as undying immortals.)

Kaoru: (Which brings us to the present.)

Adonis: (Mm. What I don't understand is, the events we are witnessing right now clearly contradict these "historical facts." Maybe it's just because this is a dream, so events are unfolding using incomprehensible dream logic, but… If it isn't just a coincidence, then what's the meaning behind all these changes?)

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The phrase used in Japanese here is literally "the single crane's voice," shortened from "the voice of a thousand sparrows; the voice of a single crane." Essentially this means the words of many normal people don't hold as much weight as the word of a single important person. This could be translated as something along the lines of "a proclamation from a voice of authority," but it should be noted that cranes are often regarded as mystical and holy creatures. Given the abundance of imagery likening Rei to the divine in this conversation alone (let alone in Rei's story as a whole), that felt relevant, so I chose to prioritize keeping the double meaning.

[foxoftheninetails]

Teehee.

Another late night post. I wrenched my back reaching for my phone charger, and now I think I might sleep on the couch so I dont exacerbate it.

So I'm watching the McElroy brothers play Super Mario World, have a heating pad pushing on my ouchies. And with Christmas coming up, lets do a teensy thought bubble.

This year has been absolutely crazy. A year ago I was negotiating a ridiculous raise at my last company, as everything fell apart around us because they had just demoted the obly other project manager. Meanwhile, my boss and the owner of the company was in South America because he doesn't like cold weather.

Now I'm unemployed, Kenna has a job, and I've spent most of the year playing video games and napping. No job prospects as of now, but who knows what this week holds.

We used our tax return money to fund a dream trip to Japan. We got a whole house to ourselves, finally got passports, registered for the train pass, and planned so many things.

We skipped the trip because I couldn't hold my anxiety in check after opening up the Pandora's box of emotional mess that is me. And neither of us regrets it. We haven't complained that we missed out. Other than the loss of money (almost the whole fucking trip sadly) were good with it.

Now onto my all time favorite subject. My friends.

This year, I reaffirmed my love for many old friends, and got closer with a few. I lost a couple to differences of opinions, and I just can't bring myself to be broken hearted. They have hate in their heart, I just can't. Finally, I met people who changed my whole world.

Last year, I got to attend a friends wedding and meet him for the first time, and I thought I was going to die. We had a wonderful time, and the warmth of the hugs I got changed me forever.

Earlier this year, I befriended my beloved Oat. I have a friend that I can bullshit with, who can somehow get me talling about the deepest stuff, who makes me feel heard and felt. She helped me with so much, including my mental health, relationship help, self confidence, and my streaming. Oat, I think you'll see this. I need you on my stream again soon, I miss you! Forehead kisses!

Then in August, while streaming some batshit crazy stuff (encouraged as always by Oat! < 3) I got raided. I figured cool, another Zelda streamer, maybe we can help each other out. Tch, to underestimate something so drastically. Not only did she inspire me to up my streaming game, Rachine collabs with me, has brought me tons of followers, workshops streams and tech issues with me (sometimes live on air) and most importantly, become one of my closest, dearest friends. She pushed me to play some of her favorite games, and brought me back to FFXIV. She encourages me and inspires me to try new things. (And yes, you're always right).

She also let me join her FC, and opened up a whole new world of friends. I have befriended some of the warmest, kindest people who went out of their way to make me feel welcome. They run dungeons, they answered questions, they carried my ass.

Finally, Jengo (who is not online other than streaming. Purest of us.) Who is part of Rachine's FC. She was the first one to essentially insist I run a dungeon with her, she made time for me to walk me through my combos, has mentored my climbing skills, answers more questions than anyone.

All of them also sit in VC with me when I'm having anxiety or breakdowns, support me when I doubt, encourage me. They are my family and I just...

Look, I know I dont shut up about them. This isn't a grab for brownie points, it's not attention. Its me workshopping how to express my deep love and gratitude to them without making them uncomfortable or laying it on too thick. Maybe they never read this, maybe they never have to put up with it for the fifth time this week. How do you properly express it to them? Telling someone you love them only gets me so far. Even with Kenna. After 17 years, saying I love you doesnt feel like the proper way to tell her shes my world.

As I regularly talk about, I am not a brief person. I am almost pathologically incapable of keeping any kind of explanation short. After a certain point, a 60 paragraph diatribe on how important someone is gets tired. I love my friends.

Its been an up and down year, but I have to say I wouldnt trade it for anything. I need those people in my life, because I am a gigantic baby and the alternative is I have internet access and no friends. That would be worse than what you have to read now.

To my friends: thank you. I love you. Happy holidays. Thank you.

[werewolfnat]

Some more because why not! TOP 5: Fic tropes you like to read. Candies you like to eat. Graphic tees you own. Fandom merch you bought yourself. Places you would like to visit. Songs you've listened to this week.

that's quite a list we got here let's have a little think about this so, none of these are gonna be in any particular order 😎

(ps i'm sorry this has been in my drafts for ages i kept forgetting to finish it off)

also i'm putting everything under the cut because this got long quickly lol

Fic Tropes:

X to Lovers (idiots/friends to lovers and sometimes enemies to lovers)

Pining and Mutual Pining

Smut (can I count that as a trope? that's 90% of what I read tbh 😅)

Alternative Universes

Pure fluff

Also bonus pick, the slow burn

Candies:

Milkyway Stars

M&M's (either original choc, brownie or crispy ones)

Galaxy Minstrels

Malteasers

Skittles

Graphic Tees:

I got so many it's hard to pick just 5 lol, but from left to right; top row - Cartoon Network tee, Eddie Hellfire tee, The Goonies tee/ bottom row - Atomic Beauty Fallout tee and Scooby Doo tee 🖤

Fandom Merch:

This is where I forget every piece of fandom merch I own that isn't solely stranger things related 😅

Ok so in the first photo we got my Jurassic Park plant pot, my Nuka Cola Fallout glass and the lovely beat up Stevie 💜 - so that's the first 3

Next up is my Hellfire Denim Vest and finally my Eddie Loungefly backpack (I have the matching purse too)

Places I'd like to visit:

i've talked about countries i'd like to visit in the past so i'm gonna go more in depth with like actual places within those places and even places in my own country I've never been to where i'd like to go.

Oregan - idk what it is about that particular state, whether it's because of media like the goonies and gravity falls or seeing from videos and photos just how much of a beautiful state it is, makes it one of the states I most want to visit in the US.

Route 66 - I've always wanted to travel that historic road

The Lake District - I've been on holiday to many places around the UK but never this one unfortunately, when I was younger it was too far north for us to travel to as I live right on the south coast of the UK, but it's still somewhere I'd love to go over if these days

Tokyo - this isn't the only place I'd live to visit in Japan but I think it's certainly the one I want to see the most

Edinburgh - another place that was too far north to go on holiday lol, I've heard from some people it's not as good as people make it out to be on insta but that doesn't deter me from wanting to visit this beautiful Scottish city

And Songs I've listened to this week:

School of Rock by the School of Rock cast

The Wanderer by Dion

A Beautiful Life by Dorothy

Never Tear Us Apart by Paloma Faith

Back In Tone by Huey Lewis and The News

Ask me my top 5 anything ;)

[catsnuggler]

One big problem we leftists have, which we often talk about yet struggle with, anyway, as more people struggling with this continue to join us, is social conservatism. Many of us think everything has to be pure and fit the Only Way, God's Way the Ideologically Pure Way, and anything outside of that is something we are uncomfortable with, must be demonized, and must be crushed, repressed, banned, Das ist VERBOTEN, the whole nine yards.

Another problem many of us have is common to "left"-liberals, centrists, and conservatives alike - a punitive nature. This is something I have struggled with, still do. Someone does something so heinous, and you want them locked up. If we want a world free of prisons, that means a world free of prisons, even ones that would be ran by us. No prisons, no prison slavery, no minimum sentences, no life sentences, no death sentences (though, frankly, I wouldn't mind if Kissinger got one), not even the allegedly cushy prisons in Scandinavia where the prison was once accidentally unlocked, and the prisoners just used the opportunity to bake brownies and stuff. Not even that. No prisons.

Then, there's "left"-liberalism. I've known anarchists who support state-ran gun control. Anarchists who know full well that the state is our enemy, that the cops and the military lean right, that many of them are Nazis. That the liberals in government know this, and don't really give a damn, and, when pressured, just make the cops wear bodycams that they then promptly turn off. That there's no way in Hell these guys would disarm their buddies along with us, they would just disarm us - and even if they disarmed their buddies, they'd give them right back later on, when they feel like making a gambit.

Another problem we have is the liberal fetishization of "progress", as if every new idea is good. Eugenics was new, and marketed as progress. The atomic bomb was a major leap in scientific discovery, and the usage of it was justified with how it would allegedly save lives; really, the US just wanted to scare the pants off of Stalin, who had finally broken his pact with the Japanese and invaded Manchuria, crushing the Kwantung Army, Japan's largest army, in a matter of days. These were new ideas, marks of "progress", and all they did was cause suffering.

I'm not saying we need to become reactionaries and idealize the past. I'm saying we shouldn't fetishize time, past or present. The nuclear family is another recent phenomenon, which has eroded and even wiped out community. Extended family used to be much more in contact with each other, and communities existed much more often, people could depend on each other more. On the other hand, white communities used to entertain themselves by lynching Black people, and families used to kill disabled children so as not to "burden" their communities. Clearly, the past isn't perfect, and some abhorrent practices are best left abandoned. Just saying, an idea isn't bad because it's old, good because it's new, or vice versa. It's good if it uplifts people, doesn't put down anyone, and increases freedom of humanity and our relatives.

Let's not forget, after all, that socialism, communism, and anarchism largely came about as a result of European observation of communitarian and egalitarian so-called "primitive" and "savage" peoples, such as the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. They idealized their societies, all while saying they practiced "primitive" socialism, and so Europeans must simultaneously struggle to achieve socialism while inevitably these "less developed nations" eventually caught up to speed. Sounds gross, and it is. It's theoretically and morally wrong. Not that Haudenosaunee society was (or is! They still exist!) perfect, but European societies also weren't so perfect and enlightened as we pretended to be.

The merit of an idea is in its medicine, not its age, nor its youth.

[simphellscape]

the longest night | tenya iida

after his U.A graduation, denki kaminari decides to throw one last celebration before everyone moves on to their next big adventure. a certain uninvited guest signs himself up for his most unexpected adventure yet, and he is completely unprepared for the long night ahead.

tw: drugs, cursing

On a particularly warm evening in August, Denki Kaminari invited his classmates to his parents’ condo for a summer reunion. Sure, it hadn’t been terribly long since he’d seen them last, but even he realized the permanence of graduation and the weight it held for graduates of U.A. specifically. In the two weeks since his high school graduation, many of his friends had already begun preparing for their next big conquest: hero work. He could practically feel the ties that he’d built with all of these people starting to snap, and there was absolutely no way he would let that happen.

So, he sent a message to the group chat he shared with his pals, telling them to head over to his place at around 8:00 that evening and to spread the word. He spent the entirety of his day preparing the necessary ingredients for a successful party (with limited knowledge on the subject himself): plenty of alcohol, a smattering of weed and weed snacks, a heap of junk food, and a few card games that looked fun.

People start trickling in at around 8:15, then arrive in droves shortly after.

Now, at approximately 9:15, Denki is confident that at least half of Japan’s population has gathered in his parent’s modest condo. Satisfied, he climbs onto his most destructive party guest’s back without warning.

“Yo, what the fuck? Are you already shitfaced?” Bakugo shouts, swatting Denki.

“Shh, no, I’m not! I want to make an announcement!” he replies, slapping Bakugo’s hands away.

“And what does that have to do with me?”

“I need leverage. You’re taller than me.”

“By like two inches!”

“It’ll be five seconds, lighten up.”

Before Bakugo could protest any longer, his host had already wriggled his way onto his shoulders, and everyone was looking. Although he was notoriously hotheaded, he’d begun to understand the importance of upholding decent appearances in public.

“Oh, sweet! Everyone’s already paying attention,” Denki smiles.

“Get on with it,” Bakugo reminds him through gritted teeth.

“Right. Glad everyone could make it! Drinks and brownies,” Denki pauses to wink exaggeratedly, “are in the kitchen. I’ve got lots of cool games we can play, and Present Mic got me this sweet sound system as a grad present! So, yeah, go nuts! Just… not too nuts because this is my parent’s place.”

With that, he unceremoniously hops off of Bakugo’s shoulders. Bakugo opens his mouth to share a few choice phrases with his friend, but is quickly interrupted by a loud bang.

“I came as soon as I heard!” a familiar, but universally unwelcomed voice cries out.

One of Denki’s classmates, the only one that Denki explicitly did not invite, stands directly in the center of his living room. Immediately behind him is the front door of the Kaminari family home, hanging by a thread off of its hinges. Surrounding him, horrified teenage faces and a few spilled red solo cups.

“Man... Iida, I just said not to go too nuts! My mom’s gonna kill me!”

“Don’t fret, Kaminari! I prepared for this very circumstance!”

The man in question, Tenya Iida, drops the two cases of water nestled in each of his arms to the ground to access his backpack. From it, he pulls out two loaves of bread, a family sized box of Pepto-Bismol, an equally large bottle of ibuprofen, several pairs of identical glasses, and finally, a toolbox.

“You see, in situations like this, caution could be thrown to the side. I brought my personal set of tools, specifically for any damages that may occur!”

He sets the box down, adjusts his glasses, and sighs.

“I do apologize for my oversight, dear friend. I understood that it was urgent that I attend this gathering, as class representative.”

“Yeah, man, I guess I forgot to let you know… you’re not here to tell us all to go home though, right?” Denki clarifies.

After a brief pause, Tenya responds.

“If I’m being completely transparent, I considered it. However, I then recalled a study I came across during my recreational reading hour today that outlined the pros and cons of indulging in activities such as this in moderation. Occasional alcohol consumption is perfectly normal, as long as it’s done safely. It is my number one duty as your class representative and the pro-hero Ingenium to assure the safety of my mates, along with the citizens of the world. So, I decided to attend and uphold my duties!”

Without another word, Iida marches to the door, tool set in hand, to repair it. The buzzing of mutters settle across the room for a moment, until Denki figures out how his new surround sound system works. Quickly, everyone forgot about Tenya’s presence.

It took him approximately ten minutes to fully repair the door. With the nature of Tenya’s quirk, he became incredibly skilled with household tools at a young age. After packing his tools into his knapsack, he turns his attention back to the party.

A song in English plays over Denki’s speakers, with more than a few protanities peppered throughout. A majority of the people in the room have a very firm grasp on the English language, but Tenya has an iron grip on it. In his years of learning it, he dedicated time after school into learning some less scholastic phrases, so that he would never misspeak if chatting with a native English speaker. It ended up doing him some good, as a lot of the people in the room were mindlessly chanting along to the song without knowing the true connotations. Shaking his head, Tenya left the room to embark on a patrol of the house.

He strolled along the perimeter, keeping an ear out for any noises of physical or emotional distress. To his relief, he found the various hallways and corners completely deserted. Satisfied, he makes his way to the kitchen.

He discovers a long table filled with various goodies there: pizzas, chips, dips, brownies, cookies, and the like. It’s alluring. Tenya arrives at a crossroads. He thinks aloud, to nobody.

“Hmm… everyone else in attendance tonight is indulging in things they normally would not be. Of course, ingesting alcoholic beverages could potentially damage my engines. However, it is proven that carb-heavy foods produce an effect similar to the state of drunkenness! Perhaps I could indulge a bit too, as long as I train more rigorously in the morning.”

With that decision made, Tenya peruses the table, pondering on how long it had been since he’d broken his strict diet.

He had pizza last on the night of graduation. A handful of chips two weekends ago. It had been several years since he’d had a pastry, however. The last time he recalled having anything close to a brownie or a cookie was when his classmate, Rikido Sato, prepared a fruit pie for the first celebration his class held at their dormitory. Even then, he only had one bite.

Now, if Tenya was going to truly indulge, he wanted to make it count. He inspected both the plate of cookies and the pan of brownies very closely, wafting the smell towards his face as one would with dangerous chemicals in a laboratory. After more careful thought, he reached for the pan of brownies.

Upon the first bite, the taste of chocolate raced across his taste buds. As it spreads, Tenya can practically feel his dopamine receptors going into overdrive. Halfway through his bite, he notices an edge of something unfamiliar… almost earthy. He doesn’t dislike it; in fact, it leads him to believe that they might be better for him. Perhaps they’re gluten-free, or low-sugar. An odd choice for a party, but he’s certainly not complaining. After shoving the rest of the brownie in his mouth, he goes for another one and completely devours it. He regards the pan of brownies once more.

“Since they seem to be a healthier brownie…”

He reaches for one more with the intent to savor it. He certainly takes his time with this one, enjoying the nuances of this delicious, ambiguously healthy treat. As he is about to take his final bite, another classmate enters the kitchen.

“Hey, Iida, wha-- oh, shit.”

Tenya turns to find Kyoka Jiro standing a few feet from him, white as a sheet. An inexplicable look of horror is spread across her face.

“Hello, Jiro! Wonderful to see you.”

“What are you eating?”

“Oh, this?” Tenya asks, raising the last bite of his brownie, “I know it’s unusual to see me with junk foods, but I decided to treat myself, much like all of you are tonight!”

“That’s not a brownie.”

“I did notice that it wasn’t an exact replica of the brownies I have tasted in the past. Is there another name for this low-carb, chocolate treat?”

“No, Iida, those are edibles. How many did you eat?”

“Oh, Jiro, you have always been a jokester. Of course they’re edible! See?”

Tenya lifts the last bite to his mouth.

“No! Stop!”

He pauses and regards Kyoka, quizzically.

“What seems to be the issue?”

Jiro scrambles over to her friend, snatching the brownie from his hand and stuffing it into her own mouth.

“Okay,” she mumbles over her full mouth, “so, these brownies have been... tampered with.”

Tenya gasps.

“Who would do such a thing?”

“No, no, it was on purpose. Uh--”

With that, Katsuki barges into the kitchen with his usual gusto.

“Who’s doing all that fucking shouting?” he shouts.

For the first time in recorded history, Katsuki takes a moment to appreciate his surroundings. He notices Kyoka, swallowing hard with chocolate crumbs around her lips. He sees Iida, looking very confused with even more chocolate crumbs decorating his face. Finally, he clocks the tray of weed brownies, with a full row completely missing. He absolutely loses his mind, cackling.

“Oh, this is so fucking funny,” he wheezes.

“Alright, I understand that this is all very amusing for you two, but I am, unfortunately, out of the loop,” Tenya asserts.

“They’ve got weed in them, you idiot!” Katsuki reveals, at long last.

Tenya’s mind goes immediately, alarmingly blank. His heart starts beating impossibly fast. His palms become slick with sweat at once.

“Marijuana? That’s impossible,” he finally chokes out.

“Oh, it’s possible,” Katsuki grunts, wiping the tears from his eyes, “and you’re about to be really fucked up.”

Of all the things he expected to encounter at this party, vomit, blood, tears, even law enforcement… something so incredibly illegal was something that had never even crossed his mind. His first instinct is to feel betrayed, and then he recalls a statistic on illicit drug use that he read recently. Not anticipating recreational drugs was a huge oversight. He could be angry later, if he so chooses. Right now, however, he needs to accept accountability and prepare for the journey he is about to take.

“I understand. I know this may come as a great shock to you, but I’m uneducated on the effects of marijuana in large quantities. I assume you both have used this drug before?”

Both Katsuki and Kyoka nod; Katsuki with fervour and a scoff, Kyoka calmly and wordlessly.

“What will happen to me?”

Katsuki opens his mouth to speak, but Kyoka interrupts.

“With all due respect, Mr. Lord Explosion Murder, I’ll take this one.”

Katsuki groans and crosses his arms over his chest.

“In about twenty minutes, you’re going to start to feel a bit… looser. Your brain might feel like it’s running slower than normal. Your body might feel a bit lighter and more relaxed. You’re probably going to feel hungry -- do not eat more brownies, please -- and everything will seem a bit funny and confusing. After a while, you’re probably gonna want to find a place and sit there, because it’s probably gonna be hard to move. Honestly, I don’t know how strong the brownies are, so you might green out, might not. You probably will, though.”

“I’m sorry… ‘green out’?”

“I’m sure you know what happens when you drink too much alcohol, right?”

Tenya nods, slowly.

“The same thing can happen if you have too much pot. You pass out, you throw up, you might even forget about the whole thing if you’re lucky. You definitely won’t die, though. You’d have to have about fifteen of those pans in, like, five minutes.”

“Memory loss doesn’t seem very fortuitous to me.”

“I was being sarcastic. Listen,” Kyoka sighs, “do you want someone to bring you home, or maybe call an Uber? I know you ran over here… and you’re definitely not gonna be able to do that anytime soon.”

Tenya’s normally rigid posture becomes even more so.

“Absolutely not! I promised my classmates that I would be here to assist them, and I will fulfill that promise to the best of my abilities!”

“Okay, I’m gonna let Denki know, then.”

With that, Kyoka leaves the kitchen, a still-chuckling Katsuki following close behind. Tenya lets out a deep sigh. He’s not entirely sure that he has the facilities to undertake this endeavor. He’s not at all like Kyoka, or Katsuki, or anyone else who would partake in this drug knowingly. He’s not carefree like them. Sometimes, he wishes ‘going with the flow’ came as easily to him as it did with many of the people he knows. If it did, then maybe he wouldn’t be so scared right now.

Tenya’s been in many situations where his life was in imminent danger, but he had friends who fought along with him, and he had training to base his decisions on. In this situation, he has no idea what to expect, what to do, or how he’s gonna make it home at the end of the night -- let alone what his family would say if they heard about this.

A fuzzy sensation creeps up Tenya’s spine. His heart rate spikes again, certain that this means his journey is starting much sooner than he thought it would. He sets his brow, takes a deep, calming breath, and begins searching the Kaminari residence for a comfortable place to rest. This is, without a doubt, going to be the longest night of his young life.

a/n: i’m back(ish) and i’m posting crack lol. i could probably write the rest of this if someone wanted it. ask and you shall receive. check the tags for my picks for the naughty english song playing on the sound system hehe

[nancypullen]

Sunday the 4th

Where was I?  I think when I last posted we were just about to run over to Rehoboth Beach to see/hear David Sedaris at BrowseAbout Books.  It was SO much fun!  We went to see him several times in Nashville, but it was always in a theater setting at TPAC.  Ever entertaining, he reads essays he’s working on, takes questions, talks about his book tour and all that - but meeting him in a more intimate setting and having a chat was so much better!  Let me back up a bit and talk about the nice woman I met in line.  Her name is Lynnie, she’s a few years older than me, and she lives in Lewes, Delaware (I looked at A LOT of wonderful real estate there, but we deemed it too far from the Edgewaters), and she sang the praises of her town.  She goes to Zumba and water aerobics (I could just cry), she takes tap lessons from an old Rockette (OMG, how fun!), she participates in everything from book club to Bunco. She was so much fun and just so sweet - she gave me her number and told me to call her if I visited Lewes.  It was almost like having a friend. Waaaaah!

She was a delight. Back to the bookstore.  I fan girl over authors the way some people do over film stars or singers, and Mr. Sedaris didn’t disappoint.  He was warm, witty, engaging, hilarious, and when he signed my book he doodled in it.  It was the flowers from my shirt.  He drew in everyone’s books, making conversation while did a quick sketch and for some reason it was funny.  Mickey got a bird.

I had him sign my book for Matt.  I read the book on my Kindle when it came out last year.  This book tour is to launch the paperback.  Matt is also a fan, and I thought he’d enjoy the book.  I loved it.  Anyway, it was a wonderful evening and we headed home through the cornfields as the sun set.

The following evening Mickey had a big party to photograph so I stayed home and watched the finale of Ted Lasso and bawled.  Oh, it was so satisfying.  If you’re a fan you’ve probably already watched it so I’m not spoiling anything by saying that I was so glad that Rebecca got her happy ending.  But now I’m without my favorite happy, positive people to watch.  Bummer. These two....

and these two....oh, my heart!

*SIGH*  I’ll miss it like I miss Schitt’s Creek.  Good stuff. This weekend we crossed the bridge to celebrate Tyler’s birthday.  We stayed with Little Miss so Ty and Jamie could go run free for a bit, then we all shared dinner, presents, and brownies with ice cream.  It was such fun.  In just a couple of months the grandgirl will be in kindergarten, she’s grown up so much just since we moved here.  We’ll drive over to attend her preschool graduation on Friday.  I know that in the blink of an eye it’ll be middle school and then high school graduation. Yikes!  I’d love to pump the breaks on all of that, but I’m glad we’re here to enjoy it.  On the way home I always try to snap a picture of the big ships lined up in the Chesapeake Bay.

They’re waaaay out there so I can’t get a clear shot from a moving car, but I love seeing them.  I found a website that identifies each ship and its origin country, so I’ll pull it up on my phone and see that one is traveling under the flag of Japan, another from Brazil, or whatever.  You can usually pull up information showing their last port of call and sometimes what they’re carrying.  Don’t ask me why I find it all fascinating, I just do.  I look out at those massive ships and imagine the different languages, music, and meals onboard.  

  In other news, no, they haven’t caught the python yet.  That’s why I gave a resounding NO when the mister asked if I wanted to go kayaking today.  Well, that and kayaking doesn’t interest me at all. But kayaking with a chance of a python popping up is a thousand times less appealing than normal kayaking. Hard pass.  Mickey and I have very different ideas of enjoyable activities, especially for fitness.  He wants to scramble over rocks, drift down rivers (and have to paddle against the current coming back), stomp through poison ivy, and become a host for ticks.  I prefer a nice, climate controlled activity with a group of women, a soundtrack, and maybe a cold beverage afterward.  Zumba, Jazzercise, water aerobics, that sort of thing. I never got a single tick at the Jimmy Floyd pool. Just sayin’.  I’m past the age where I want to be uncomfortable. I get plenty of exercise working in the yard, I get a dose of sunshine, and I can play tunes or a crime podcast while I do it.  Then I sit in my  shady nook on the porch and enjoy a cool drink.  Won’t be long before this patch is all zinnias and sunflowers.

While I was enjoying a beverage in my shady spot, I flipped through the local paper.  There was a section listing all of the “Best of the Chesapeake” from hair salons to BBQ to physicians.  This one made me giggle.

Speech therapists! Can you imagine having a speech issue and having to call and make an appointment with any of those names??  Impossible! I did not see a category for best snake catchers on the Eastern Shore. Oh well, the day is slipping away from me and I need to get dinner started.  Kind of wishing Mickey had something to go photograph so I could just pop some popcorn and say I had veggies for dinner.  Not gonna’ happen, guess I’d better get busy.

Sending out loads of love.  I hope you’ve all had a wonderful weekend.  If not, then be glad it’s over, have a gaze at what’s left of the Strawberry Moon tonight and tell the universe that you need a break from your troubles. Stay safe, stay well. XOXOXO, Nancy

[the-firebird69]

This is how it works out and actually a lot of times it looks like this not exactly like it usually the cabinets are nicer the refrigerator is bigger and there's a stove and we will include that. There are hotels and have stoves and we shut the stove off when nobody's in the room believe it or not we go in and there's a code and everything is shut off actually so we are interested in doing this if you know the furniture looks kind of like a camper when it's not the couch is look very similar but this is kind of the layout of the couch on the wall would look very close to that that's what they look like and they you move the coffee table and it's a bed always and the table that's closer to you would not look like that it'd be bigger and it would fold down into a bed so there you have sleeping for 6 we could put this into hotels this right now it's maddening you have to buy a hotel for every person and you have tons of people it's even a better idea so he leaned it out in a hotel room and came up with this and he said what's the difference between an apartment in a hotel and then I said if you're in a hotel apartment and it's small we have to watch out for occupancy but really you can put like 4 people in here and he said it's because of the times that you need to save money and people would be very grateful. This is one of the best ideas I've ever had and the camper people are nervous there's a lot of people still making them this would be a mainstay for them and things would change slightly but their quality is very nice now the slide outs and the drawers pocket doors everything works really well and is fairly inexpensive even the higher end stuff is done tons of money and they're excited they hear the idea and he said he's seen it in Japan you go in there you have a fridge you have a sink even a hot plate and the room is like 10 by 8 or smaller it was really by it was really like 4 by 8 and he didn't mind at all that's another way to do it is to have small rooms for each person they don't make the buildings right but you have to make all these branches to get to them and you can make adjoining rooms I mean it is just a terrific idea. It is kind of brand new because this micro hotel you can't put the couch down and you'd have your linens and you just take the linens and they pick them up and they wash them and fold them and start over again in a hotel. An environment you just treated like a regular bed and you have to make it every day though and that's kind of a hassle and this way is around it and people use sleeping bags and all sorts of things but boy it's a great idea.

Frank Castle hard castle

Olympus

2 hours he says please don't be offended I have to say weird things strange things to help get things going sometimes they're unconventional and they might sound like you don't want to do it afterwards but it's not something that would affect you too much it would help get it going. And we have permission to announce it. The table and the couch are gonna be used regular use like it's a regular apartment even the extended stay places and a lot of people have rancid farts and if they if they do have something at work they replace it immediately or change the cover if it's not bad but yeah you might end up smelling something on occasion you're releasing it when you press the when you press the cushion down. So we are in receipt of the idea and we're putting that warning out that a lot of Morlock might try and buy the Betty Crocker diet brownies and other such things

Frank Castle Hardcastle

People are weird but some people live for that stuff they're gonna wanna see it and like right now . And those rooms would be cheap you know regular room is like 50 to 70 dollars and a room like that would probably be $80 and it's like 4 so you're spending $20 each and people you could stay there for a day or two and get something fixed did not spend a fortune. Other places might be less expensive and keep in mind it's it's done to be less expensive and they might have different configurations that have less in them meaning you might just have a fridge in a microwave and bunk bez and you spend 10 or 15 dollars each but it still would be camper stuff and these would be efficiencies and then you could have long term stay as part of the same complex he says if like a hotel and you can stay there for two week runs and that's like the longest and then you renew and that's like a limit on how long it can stay at that particular location and some people might live with these things but you could also and he says people don't want to keep doing it you could also list where there are apartments and it would be a sales brochure but a living one. and you could have a full brochure at each hotel and it would say you know sleeps and houses for sleeps in houses 6 sleeps in houses 8 of course if you have seven you can get the 81 or suffering get the 71 and people will inquire about how it is and you'd have four plans in the brochure and therefore apartments and you can apply right there and we'd have them everywhere this is a great idea we're in love again with our friends who are struggling and suffering and we hope to help them soon. We have a lot of campers we can convert to busses and we can get them on the road pretty quick and we can use the equipment to make samples and test it in cities where we know we're going to get company gosh I don't know this is great and we're going to make micro hotels anyways and that you just sleep in and shower and there's definitely a way to do it you have it's like a honey it's not a honeycomb but you have branches and you go off and there's branches on the whole thing and it's you go left to right and it's a branch way and there are back to back and then you go to the next hallway and they're they're back to back and then you go down to the right or the left and there's a series of doors on the left and the right of the hallway you go down there pretty close together and it's just like in the movie the fifth element. He wants us to look at that and to examine it and it's a little bit rough we won't have the automatic stuff for moving people around but you can shutter the door closed when you're sleeping quarters it has it will have screens or event the whole thing will be vented not just part of it and it's for security and you will have emergency communication but all the stuff he's had in there so we're gonna put that up and you can do that with camper stuff yes. And Little Teeny apartments or hotel rooms and our son says he's he's ok with it and there's only a few things you need to cook with and it works sometimes storage you might want to have more so in an apartment we would have a lot more storage for food and frozen food and the bigger refrigerator is as we said. Usually we would use the camper equipment really in the refrigerator only in the hotels not the apartments. And the rest of it is pretty good

It's really an oddball idea but really nice because when you're in a small apartment you can't fit and you're bumping into things and granted you would have a little less storage but you could store it in containers but it'll be out of the way in this case you would have a lot more room than usual and he says you can have storage cabinets and they actually have them in campers above the dining table and they're held by the ceiling and they're like four feet deep and they have them in campus and it's a great addition it would make it work so much better we're going to put it in now

Frank Castle hard castle and Duke Nukem blockbuster and Hera And Thor and Freya and I'm gonna do that and start working on cleaning up verbiage and see how it goes it's a good idea to check it out. Hera They're monitoring those fleets and we are checking and spying to see what they're gonna do. And prepping.

[birdieofparadise]

I guess I will introduce myself…

My love of Girl Scouts started when I became a daisy in the 90's as part of the Virginia Skyline Council. I continued in Scouting until I bridged to Cadettes (7 years total). I am anow a card carrying Lifetime Member of the Girl Scouts. In 2014, I decided to start volunteering as a co-leader while my husband was stationed in California because I wanted to be around children and impact their lives for the better the way Girl Scouts impacted mine. We were also struggling with infertility and this seemed like a good outlet. So began my adult journey into Girl Scouts.

I co-led a multi-level Daisy/Brownie troop until moving away in 2016. Which is the same year my twins girls were finally born. I took a break from volunteering to raise my little ones in Florida before moving again to Italy in 2019. There, I started leading a troop of Cadettes and Seniors, but unfortunately our time was cut short due to Italy being hit hard by Covid. Now we are in Japan! This year I’ve happily lead over a dozen amazing Daisies and am ready to move with them to Brownies next year!

Foremost, I am a mother to my oddball identical twins, but I am also a hobby photographer, computer game nerd, and avid roller skater. I love Miffy, and collect vinyl records. I am weirdly obsessed with the USPS and love to travel, camp, hike, kayak, backpack, and pretty much anything involving nature. My husband and I hiked 60 miles of the Appalachian Trail in 6 days for vacation in 2013, and we had an absolute blast! Doing a full thru hike is now at the top of my bucket list. When I married my husband in 2007 we tied the knot in the George Washington National Forest tucked away in the beautiful Virginia Blue Ridge. I hope to pass on my love and respect for nature to my upcoming Brownies.

This summer I finally get to fulfill a lifelong dream of being a camp counselor at a Girl Scout camp. My twins and I are headed back to Virginia to spend time with family while my husband is deployed and school is on break. I get to give back to the council that did so much for me. Even if it’s only for a long weekend. I’m really looking forward to it and hope my twins have as much fun at camp as I did when I was a kid.

Welp, there ya have it.

[zeeph-containment-zone]

Twitter reopening the 164 Starbucks discourse from JANUARY and conviniently ignoring the whole thing where the producers addressed the situation and "boycott culture is different in japan than it is in the US the rest of the world does not do the same things America does in terms of protest and awareness" conclusion that was reached is not surprising but fucking annoying as hell how many times do we have to revisit the concept of "The Rest of the World IS NOT AMERICA" in general like I feel like people just want to reopen old discourse and throw the word Zionist at everyone except the actual zionists spreading propoganda around jfccccccc addenum: also, why the fuck do people thing talking about cultural differences is "babying the japanese." Stating the fact that things are different outside of your own country is not fucking babying anybody that's just how shit is. I'd even say the whole "they HAVE TO HAD known about the boycott stop babying them" is also a bunch of horseshit because there's people in the united fucking states who don't even know what's going on outside of their own circle because not everyone lives on twitter either. Some people shut that shit out entirely. iirc the producers in question had mentioned seeing stuff on the news about it and not supporting israel at all but of course twitter again wants to just ignore this and get as many brownie points as they can so they can seem better than everyone. Don't even gete me started on how people use this whole thing to make themselves seem morally better than anyone else, that's a whole different can of worms. There's literal people dying en masse and twitter users are more concerned on how performative they can be and how much attention they can farm off of supporting it. I hate it. I hate it so much.

[universal-kitty]

Got a delivery for one [Rendacted] (lol kidding on the delivery bit, but I do have some questions regarding the tall weeb)! Uh... How about Apple Pie, Shortcake, Flan, Muffin + Brownie (from the sweet-themed self ship asks)?

Due to the source of this ask: Minors/Ageless blogs DNI! You will be blocked. 💖

🍭 Sweet Themed Selfship Asks

Apple pie: How does your f/o sleep? Do they snooze soundly next to you or do they toss and turn etc?

Ren tosses a bit less than I do! I'm the one who wiggles around the bed, completely rotating, in some cases. By comparison, Ren... He rolls a bit in his sleep. Sometimes clings overly much to the blankets... But it's pretty normal.

Over the years, hover, they flop around less and start clinging more. (As their brain catches up to the fact we're dating!! We sleep in the same bed!!! They may or may not still be losing their mind over this.)

Shortcake: What’s your f/o’s love language? (physical affection, giving gifts, etc)

He has to pick one???? That would be. Impossible for them. The most I can say is this: they typically like gift-giving the most.

There's something very rewarding about getting an item that reminds me of them/they know I'd really like, getting to give it to me, and watching my eyes light up in delight!! It's almost as good as the praise I croon to him for thinking of me and getting something so sweet~

Second closest is physical affection. He would happily live life toting me around in an arm, if it was possible. (And I didn't have such a strong urge to wander here, there, and everywhere.)

Flan: How does your f/o comfort you when you’re upset?

Depends! Ren knows I'm pretty attached to fictional characters, so they're not above dressing up as one on a whim to try and utilize that. If that wouldn't help or it doesn't, that's when they're pulling out every stop. Doesn't matter what I want; if I want it, he'll make it happen.

I want a rare plushie? Okay, buying it (or stealing one) first thing. Expedited shipping, if bought. Would a shopping trip help? Anything I want, they'll buy. Fuck the final price and any guilt; they'll spoil me rotten if it makes I can crack a smile later.

Shit, he'd book a flight for the soonest one to Japan if it would make me happy. Road trip; anything. Anything that makes me sad is a fuckin' crime on this planet and he'll do anything to make the pain better/ease off.

Muffin: What does your f/o’s laugh sound like?

The first ask that's different depending on who!! :D SO! For Ren (Haruko cosplay), it's a light, airy laugh. They're trying to come off as sweet and a little shy, although those with sharp ears can notice it may sound kinda...off. Not deceptive- if it's over something I say, it's still rings quite sincere!- but... It's off.

This also ties with any other fave he cosplays as; it will mimic the character they're aiming for, but with more or less of that fake-feeling vibe.

[Rendacted]'s true laugh is kinda scratchy, low...but the more he laughs, the louder- and lighter- it gets! Basically, he's that person who laughs low to start- like chuckles- but will get into a much more classically "handsome" laugh as he lets loose.

Seeing him smile was a rarity before- still is when it comes to his walls dropping in full- but it's become more common with us dating. 💕

Brownie: What’s your f/o’s favorite part of you?

...They would CRY to have to pick one. How are they supposed to pick?! Those pretty, dark green eyes, that got the shape of flowers in them? The dark brown hair they get to help brush every morning? What about the cute, soft hands that hold theirs every day?! There's also the subtle collarbones, the neck they love to mark, the tummy they kiss very often, the thighs-

...Ren wouldn't stop gushing for anything the second the topic would come up. Don't let him start if you know what's good for you.

[manjirot]

BIG TIME BONTEN

Summary: your daily life as the maid and girlfriend of the most dangerous crime organization in Japan.

Bonten x fem!reader

Cw: sexual jokes, sexual flirting, polygamy relationships, sexual content, pet names, the trio shenanigans + Bonten,

MDNI!! Though this will be sorta wholesome but sexual things will still be brought up so MINORS PLS DNI!!!!

WELCOME TO TOKYO

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“WHAT IS HAPPENING!?” You screamed, running around in Kokonoi’s office area holding strains of your hair. “What do you mean you own me?” You asked. “I thought I was gonna be the maid!”

Kokonoi sighed, running his fingers through his hair. “Sit down. Now, what you just signed is a contract and in this contract it is said that you belong to us! You’re still the maid because we’re in need of one but what I’m saying is other than your original cleaning duties, we’re allowed to have fun with you.”

“Wha- fun with me? What are you even talking about?” You frowned, you’re hoping he’s not about to say what you’re thinking.

“Princess, what he’s trying to say is that we can play with your tits whenever we want to,” Mikey said as he pulled you closer and squeeze one tit.

Sanzu moaned, “no fair! I wanna squeeze her tits too!! Sugarplum can I squeeze a tit, huh huh!?” Two seconds in the house and these guys already given you nicknames…

“Shut up, your voice is giving me a headache! Anyways you’ve already signed so you really don’t have a say in the matter.” Kokonoi said. “Let’s go, I’ll introduce you to everyone and show you your room.”

“So I really don’t have a say in this at all?” You asked, knowing it’s futile.

“No!” The three men said in unison.

You followed Kokonoi into the living area where the rest of the men were along with Mikey and Sanzu. “Everyone, this is Y/n. Our new maid and also our girlfriend.” You jerked your head and looked at Kokonoi then at Mikey and Sanzu.

“Girlfriend you say?” The oldest Haitani brother spoke.. he got off the couch and walked up to you, “what’s your name babygirl?”

“Y/n L/n.”

He grabbed your chin with his finger, “what a lovely name..”

“And you’re pretty cute too! And you can clean and cook, damn what more can you ask for!” Rindou appeared beside Ran, “this is my baby brother, isn’t he adorable?”

“More like stupid,” Kokonoi said underneath his breath. “Hey! I heard that,” Rindou shouted.

Suddenly a tall man with a scar on his face stands in front of you looking intimidating until he takes your hand and kisses it softly, “it’s a pleasure to meet you, Y/n. My name is Kakucho but you can refer me as Kaku.”

You’re taken aback with his approach and how gentle he is, “likewise Kaku.” You say softly as your face turn slightly red.

“You motherfuc- you get no brownie points Kakussy, if that’s what you’re thinking!!” Sanzu shouted, “Being romantic gets you no pus- OUCH!!”

“Why are you being so damn loud Sanzu? Jeez, you’re gonna wake up the dead.” a man with a cigarette hanging from his mouth as he spoke, he walked in and sat down on the bar. Following behind him is a buff built man with sharp eyebrows and a very intimidating glare.

“This her?” The man with the eyebrows asked. Kokonoi nodded. The man then looked at you, “Names Mochi. This here is Takeomi. fortunately we both are in committed relationships so we’re not participating in this but we will drop by from time to time to visit ya.”

“What you do mean by fortunately Mochi? You think you and Omi are better than us!?” Rindou asked, narrowing his eyes at the two men. “I never said that,” Mochi said.

“You totally did.” Sanzu said, “you literally said you two are better because you don’t have to go online to find a girl or a maid!!”

“You know what, I’m outta here!” Takeomi shouted. He rushed out passed you and slammed the mansion door behind him. “Tch, I fucking hate him.” You heard Sanzu muttered.

Mochi scratched his head at the awkward silence, “I should um, I should get going.. my girl is expecting me home. See you guys tomorrow.” He quickly left.

Another awkward silence took place until Ran spoke, “so sleeping with babygirl?”

“ME! I’m sleeping with her! ME! ME! ME!” Sanzu yelled, “I’m sleeping with her and that’s-

“Shut up, I’m sleeping with her.” Mikey finally spoke.

“Okay…” Sanzu immediately calmed down and pouted. He was crying on the inside. Ran and Rindou laughed at how quick he was shut down.

“Koko, I still have some work to do but show Princess her room.” Mikey says. He cups your cheeks into his hands, “make yourself at home, alright? I’ll be in bed as soon as I’m done.” He then kisses you, you felt his hot tongue all in your mouth but all you could think of if he thought of you as a bad kisser.

He released you and a trail of saliva follows, “I gotta teach you how to kiss princess.”

The mansion is huge like fucking huge, it probably has twenty rooms or more in it, “Kokonoi?”

“Hm?”

“Is this mansion for me?” You asked as you followed him to your room. Kokonoi chuckled, “don’t be silly, it’s not just for you! It’s for all of us. The six of us will all be living here with you.”

“Are you serious!?” You yelled, “as a heart attack” Kokonoi said. Your head is spinning at this spot. “You didn’t catch on when Mikey said he’s gonna sleep with you?”

“But why me? I’m just a ordinary girl… I’m not really pretty or anything special. So why me??” You asked.

“You peeked Mikey interest… and we’re here.” Kokonoi the opened the door and you were amazed with what you were seeing. The room is huge, the bed is definitely king size. The bathroom looks like a whole room itself and you have a walk-in closet, a freaking walk-in closet!!

While you were freaking out over how beautiful your room is, Kokonoi just leaned in the doorway, smiling. “Everything to your liking?” You turn around happily, “of course this is perfect, everything is perfect!!” Seeing you get happy like this is adorable, he wants to keep that smile on your face at all times.

Just as Kokonoi was about to leave you shout his name, “Kokonoi!!” He peeped his head back into your room, “what’s up?” He asked.

“Thank you,” you say softly. He felt his cheeks burning, damnit why are you so cute. “You don’t have to thank me.” Kokonoi said trying to play it off, “thank the bossman and you can call me Koko, alright?”

You smiled at him, “alright Koko.”

“Also,” Kokonoi cleared his throat, “you should know that you’re working for slash dating the most dangerous men in Japan.”

“Eh?” You give him a confused look. “What are you talking about? You told me you guys were k-pop stars.”

Kokonoi chuckled covering his mouth, “Oh, no. We’re far from that.. we’re actually a-.”

Suddenly you screamed bloody murder from upstairs. “I’m guessing Koko told her the truth, aye?” Ran asked as he sipped on his beverage. “He definitely told her.” Both Rin and Sanzu said in unison as they played cards together and Kakucho sat there with a expressionless look on his face, thinking why would they even lie to you in the first place.

“Oh, yeah. This is gonna be fun.” Ran chuckled.

this is gonna be a on-going series!!! just think of this as episode one LMAOO! lmk what you think of it :)) MWAUHH <33

[lightstar789]

I wanna do a quick little analysis of a couple of the new voicelines we just got from the launch of Milgram Trial 2, so without further ado, let's get into it!

(Translation Credits to Rochisama on Wordpress)

So a basic summary of the lore and the events in the prison since we last saw it is in order, so to understand everything happening. We can see that Mu and Haruka have started to get closer together. as evidenced in their 3rd voicelines respectively:

Although it seems that Mu is using Haruka in some way, it's nice to know that things are amicable between them.

Now...er...the rest of the prison...

Yeah...I don't think it's lookin' too hot.

We've got Ms. Single | Hot | Has a crush on Jake | DON'T TOUCH MY TAIL, (You'd be lying if you said Kotoko wasn't one of those roleplayers in Royale High) running around and beating up everyone, because she wants to be Es' so-called "fangs" and gain brownie points for being a "hArBiNgEr Of JuStIcE."

And then we have her planning to beat up Amane as well, who's a literal twelve-year-old. Who's the child abuser now, little miss A/B/O? Judging from the new sprites, it looks like she got to Mahiru and Fuuta, before our MVP, Shidou was able to get them medical care. Also, props to Kazui trying to protect everyone, you did good, my guy.

Now, onto the actual analysis:

One of the (arguably) most significant changes happens to Shidou, whose out look on his own life has changed, according to his 5th voiceline:

He looks like he's taken the opportunity of being voted innocent to protect the lives of the other prisoners, a HUGE step for the organ harvester himself. He also doesn't hate himself as much with such passion as he did in trial 1, which is also interesting to see. He's one of the victims of metavoting, and so far, it's turning out very well for him!

Speaking of metavoting, it's time to move on to our favorite little girl, Amane! For those of you dumbasses still fuming over why we voted the twelve-year-old guilty, we did it so we could change/challenge her worldview, like we accomplished with Shidou...only this time, it didn't do much. EVERYONE finds a cult programming a little girl deplorable, and sympathize with her. Japan has had a HUGE history with cults, so it's interesting to see the incorporation of such an issue into Milgram.

A detail that I noticed in the M/V for 'Magic' is that Amane's cult seems to be against the idea of modern medicine, so when she helped the "cat" (probably a stand-in for a real person), they tortured her. It's horrifying to see how she's bent to their belief system within her third voiceline:

Shidou, as a reminder, is a surgeon, who's probably very skilled at what he does (despite the years and years of medical malpractice). There are countless cutting edge inventions coming out in medicine today, most of which her cult is probably against. However, the fact that she's still clinging to her beliefs shows that the whispers Mahiru and Fuuta were hearing didn't do much to her. However, it is interesting to note that her appearance has changed drastically, and she looks practically dead inside.

Not much to say about the silly little guy (Mikoto) other than the fact that his appearance is more raggedy, and he's also being openly aggressive towards Es, like in 'John Doe.' I can't say too much about him because his M/V is the most vague out of them, and I don't fully support the DID theory (*cough cough* ableism). I do think it's a red herring, due to Kotoko thinking she was a licensed psychologist (she's literally a college drop out) and making that assumption. Maybe he's lying, maybe he's part of a gang, maybe 'MeMe' is non-linear, we may never know until his second M/V gets released.

Both Fuuta and Mahiru have begun to hear whispers according to the Portal Timeline app translations, which we've seen their behavior begin to change over the past few months, each of them doubting themselves heavily. Yuno has also gotten colder and has started to show aspects of her true self, but there's nothing out of the ordinary with that, since she's hinted at it before.

But anyway, that's it for me. I'd love to see what the rest of you have to say! There are obviously things I haven't talked about yet that I'll hope to get to soon. Ciao!

[sunwoo-hoo]

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↳ a/n: hello lovelies! here is another treasure reaction! i’m sorry that it took so long, treasure usually takes me a little longer to do so keep that in mind for future requests. but anyway i hope you like it! i got inspiration from t-map episode 39. i hope you don’t mind i made the kids various ages so that it wasn’t the same scenario. xx 

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「 choi hyunsuk  」

you told him you had to cancel the date you had planned together to watch your 5 year old niece

he recommended bringing her over to the dorms so that you could watch her together

he was ecstatic when you showed up with the little girl’s hand in yours

“oh my goodness aren’t you so cute?!” he gushed squatting down to get on her eye level

she hid her behind your legs in embarrassment

the day was spent playing various games like hide and seek easing your niece into the unfamiliar surroundings

at one point when she settled down watching television hyunsuk couldn’t help but look at you saying

“i can’t wait til we have a child of our own one day”

「 park jihoon 」

you had brought your nephew over to bake some brownies together hoping to surprise jihoon after practice

but when he told you practice was cancelled for the day he decided to join in on baking

he tried his best to make your 6 year old nephew laugh but he was not having it

it wasn’t until jihoon accidentally tripped over some flour falling to the floor butt first is when your nephew started to laugh uncontrollably  

you couldn’t help but put your hand over your mouth trying not to laugh in front of him

“i’m glad you think my misery is funny” he quipped rubbing his behind

「 kanemoto yoshinori  」

it was a rainy day when you went to visit yoshi at the dorms with your young niece

she had just turned 4 and yoshi wanted to meet her finally coming back from treasure’s recent comeback

walking into the dorms he had the biggest smile on his face when he bend down to greet her

“hello! [niece name] it’s so nice to meet you, you can call me yoshi-oppa” grabbing her little hand

she smiled up at him looking enjoying the new acquaintance she had just met

yoshi then stood back up placing a kiss on your cheek

“she’s so adorable”

「 kim junkyu  」

you were your nephew’s best friend being the cool aunt he always loved hanging out with you

when he heard you were in a relationship with an idol he was a tad bit jealous since he knew he would be seeing less of you

until you decided that your nephew should meet junkyu bringing him to the dorms one afternoon

when you walked in junkyu couldn’t help but smile at your nephew’s cuteness

“you must be [nephew name] i’m your aunt’s special friend” he exclaimed proudly

junkyu decided to show off his singing charms to your nephew who couldn’t help but be in awe of his voice

the rest of the day was spent together singing karaoke

「 takata mashiho 」

this wasn’t the first time mashiho had met your 7 year old nephew

in fact you were convinced your nephew liked mashiho more than you when he basically begged you to take him to see mashiho one day

walking in the dorms mashiho ran up to your nephew giving him the biggest of hugs

“hey! [nephew name] i’ve missed you! guess what? i got the nintendo switch all set up for us” he cheered

your nephew practically ran at a inhuman speed to the console mashiho going after him

you couldn’t help but smile looking at your two favorite people in the world having a wonderful time together

「 yoon jaehyuk 」

it was busy afternoon running errands with your young niece

jaehyuk had texted you asking you to come over

when you told him that you had your young niece with you that’s when he texted back in less than in a minute

telling you that he would babysit her until you were finishing up your errands for the day

when you went to the dorms you were shocked on what he had set up there was different types of games, books, & snacks

when he greeted you with a peck on the lips you couldn’t help but smile at the effort he put in

“don’t worry about a thing [name] we’re going to have lots of fun i promise” he grinned

「 hamada asahi 」

it all happend during a snow day, you were taking care of your niece while your sibling was out of town for a business trip

deciding to get out of the house you told asahi you were coming over to the dorms since it was treasure’s break

he decided to draw out a welcome sign for her so that she would be surprised when you showed up

walking in the dorm shaking your shoulders trying to get rid of snow that’s when you saw the welcome sign

your niece smiled at the cute drawn characters as asahi bend down to give her the piece of paper

“this is for you [niece name] i hope you like it” he smiled

the rest of the day was spent by the fire enjoying hot chocolate with marshmallows

「 bang yedam 」

when yedam told you he wanted to meet your nephew you were kind of against it

partly because your nephew was still very young barely able to walk on his own but yedam persisted

giving in you brought your nephew to the dorms one day

walking in yedam ran straight towards you in awe of the young child in your arms

“he’s so charming” he gushed squishing his little cheeks

as you walked into the living your room you sat down on the couch putting your nephew on the floor so that he could crawl around

he then crawled to yedam’s guitar playing with the strings laughing at the funny noise it was making

picking up the guitar yedam exclaimed proudly

“how about i sing a song for you? would you like that?”

「 kim doyoung 」

you were picking up your 5 year old nephew from school wanting to see doyoung since his dorms was on the way back home

he was surprised to see you but even more surprised when you brought your nephew as well

since it was a beautiful day out you all decided to go to the small park behind the dorms

all three of you decided to play a game of soccer while doyoung was giving your nephew some pointers

“your doing great! [nephew name] but try it this way”

you smiled at the wholesome interaction while your nephew looked up at him in admiration

doyoung gave him the biggest cheer when your newphew made his first goal

“see! i knew you could do it” he exclaimed proudly showing off his cute smile that you loved so much

「 watanabe haruto 」

one of the most important things to haruto was family

so when your sibling finally had your first niece he was thrilled not only for you but for your sibling as well

after a couple of weeks you finally decided to bring her to meet haruto while he was at the dorms

walking in with the baby in your arms he looked down at her tearing up

he couldn’t help it, as it reminded him of his little sister back home all the way in japan

when you gently passed her over to haruto he smiled

looking up at him you wiped away his tears as he finally said

“i think it’s time you meet my family [name] your important to me.. i want them to meet the woman i want to spend the rest of my life with” he vowed

「 park jeongwoo 」

it was a rare day when jeongwoo had a day off from all of his idol duties

so you were shocked when he said he wanted it to spend his day off with you and your niece

the minute you showed up to the dorms your niece went wild running all over the place

she was still at the age where she was just full of energy and there was no way you could stop it anytime soon

jeongwoo ran after her trying to catch her

“come here baby!” he giggled making funny animal noises trying to get her attention

finally scooping her up he gave her a small kiss on the cheek

you pouted until he saw your face giving you a small kiss on your pouty lips

“don’t worry babe your still my number 1 but [niece name] is coming for your spot” he teased as you lightly punched his arm playfully

「 so junghwan 」

being the youngest of the group he was the most comfortable around young children

you decided that he should meet your niece for the first time after a couple of months of dating

one sunny day coming to the dorms he noticed you walking in with her as he was playing a video game

he shyly walked over to her bending down to her eye level

“hello, [niece name] you look very pretty today, it’s so nice to meet you” he announced looking at her pink tutu and her small tiara

she giggled pulling off her tiara giving it to junghwan

he put it on top of his head confidently

“do i look like a prince?” he asked doing a pose

she shyly nodded

the rest of the day was spent playing dress up and having tea time together  

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